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Content preview: On 1/6/2021 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Am 09.12.20 um 16:04 schrieb ekke: >> I'm happy with the new Small Business
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On 1/6/2021 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Am 09.12.20 um 16:04 schrieb ekke:
I'm happy with the new Small Business License for my mobile app
development. https://www.qt.io/qt-for-small-business
Well, here's the new catch (compared to Qt 5 perpetual licenses): if you
stop paying your license fees you now must pull your app(s) developed
with Qt 6 from all app stores (existing users may continue to use your
app, sure), or in other words: you can only sell your Qt 6 based apps
for as long as you keep paying the yearly Qt license fees. That also
impacts giving support for your existing apps: you can only do so for as
long as you have a valid (paid) Qt 6 license.
That might not be a big deal for those small businesses that keep
developing (new) Qt applications, but it may be an additional burden for
others.
Now I am not even critisising this decision: after all, everyone needs
to make (keep making) money. I was just trying to explain why some are
put off a bit by this license policy change decision.
It is far more than that, but you have a very good start.
Does the purchaser of the "subscription license" get titanium clad in
writing confirmation that fee will never go up or are you subject to the
"shopping whims of the ex-wife?"
Consider this:
You build something using Qt 6.x and your subscription license. Surgical
robot, drone flight control software, school registration app, whatever.
You then sell that something to a not insubstantial entity, say
municipal/county hospital, school boards around the country, NSA, entity
with a big legal bat that can swing at will. Yes, even that po-dunk
U.S.A. school system with 300 students will kick what they believe is
theft or diving on a contractual obligation up to the state and the
state A.G. will come looking for you.
Being fiscally responsible these entities make you sign a seven year
support contract and there are some small annual fees that go with that.
Year 2:
ex-wife wants a bigger McMansion and a shiny new 'cedes. She looks
around and sees that you are making a bit of money and more importantly
are locked into a multi-year support contract with someone who could
theoretically put you in prison for diving on that contract. Your
"subscription" now jumps to $500,000 for the current year. It's more
than you have.
This possibility (however remote anyone wants to claim) is why companies
are dumping Qt in droves. It's also why quite a few OpenSource projects
are being hastily converted to other libraries.
The other chatter about trying to make QtCreator a commercial product is
also giving decision makers great pause.
When the known unknowns are too great one must look elsewhere.
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